on my MythTV backend i **believe** i've succesfully configured the tv_grab_uk_rt grabber, however, i have missing EPG data for a couple of channels such at BB3 HD. Doing a bit of research, i now learn that the RT grabber, is no longer being suppport in terms of no new channels being added - i'm presumming this is the reason why i have missing EPG data?

Appears that the the EPG data can be provided by "atlas" from metabroadcast.com, although what i can understand they just provide the data and i would need to confugure a Grabber??? so i've signed up for the API...

That version of the atlas grabber looks out of date. It has now been merged into the official XMLTV source so you are better installing the official XMLTV version. The Atlas grabber was added in 0.5.64 so any version later than that should be OK.

Thanks paulh for your quick response. so am i right in my previouse post that where the files should be placed? i presume i could the configure it via the MythTVsetup or using tv_grab_uk_atlas --configure.

Hmnm may of spoke too soon! I can successfully configure the Atlas XMLTV and also run it manually, it brings back the full 14 days. I can also run "MythfillDatabase" from command line and this works as well (looking ou the mythweb - backend status, i get a "success message - with a full 14 days worth of data) However when i run it automatically over night in MythTV i get "failed with error 1 code", only 13 days of data left.

My only conclusion is that it's being run by the mythtv user and there must be some kind of permissions issue? as when i run mythfilldatabase manually i'm using my "local" user. Would this be right? i'm not sure what error 1 means and not sure how to find out ... (is there a list of what these error codes means or are they just gereric?). would provide a log, but at work at the moment, just posted this first in the hope some knows what the issue is.

I think you can ignore that error. There is a bug in the early versions of the grabber that causes it to return an error result when it shouldn't. I think you will find you still get EPG data.

I did look into this but have since forgotten the details IIRC it is looking for an optional supplementary file and not finding it but carries on regardless with no problems but later returns an error result even though it succeeded to get the required EPG data.

AshJG wrote:My only conclusion is that it's being run by the mythtv user and there must be some kind of permissions issue?

That is a common issue. Look for ~<yourlocaluser>/.mythtv/*.xmltv and ~mythtv/.mythtv/*.xmltv. Existance of these files, their permissions, and the permissions of the referenced directories. All might contribute to the issue.

AshJG wrote:My only conclusion is that it's being run by the mythtv user and there must be some kind of permissions issue?

That is a common issue. Look for ~<yourlocaluser>/.mythtv/*.xmltv and ~mythtv/.mythtv/*.xmltv. Existance of these files, their permissions, and the permissions of the referenced directories. All might contribute to the issue.

Yes, looks like it was a permision issue i did a symbolic link between ~<yourlocaluser>/.mythtv/*.xmltv & ~mythtv/.mythtv/*.xmltv and everything works, now getting 14 days (sometimes 13 days, not sure why ) worth of EPG data.

i'm using "refresh 0-14" as the comand in the backend, leaving it blank didnt seem to work/update? I presume this woudn't have any long term issues doing this?